Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues. It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news.
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National: Let's Talk About 'Buy America'
National Journal Transpo Experts Blog
It's that time of year again. House Democrats convened a press conference last week introducing legislation to expand the "Buy America" requirements for infrastructure investments...

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Miami: New Expressway Idea Draws Fire
Miami Herald
Miami-Dade's expressway authority has launched a multi-million-dollar study of what could be one of the most controversial transportation ideas to…

Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America.
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Blogosphere: What If a City Wants More Transit?
Human Transit
Large North American transit agencies generally have some revenue raising authority over an enormous and diverse urban area, and feel obliged to serve the same enormous area with something that can be justified as an "equitable" distribution of service...

Reconnecting America President and CEO John Robert Smith will be in Tallahassee, FL, Dec. 13 to discuss "Regional Opportunity Atlas, Gulf Coast Passenger Rail Restoration" at the Tallahassee City Hall Commission Chambers. Discussions are underway to revive the defunct Amtrak commuter rail line in Tallahassee, and redeveloping the station near Florida A&M's campus. Amtrak Gulf Coast Connector's Sunset Limited was discontinued in late 2005 after Hurricane Katrina destroyed many of the tracks.

Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America.
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Blogosphere: How Transpo Bill Changed Overnight
DC Streetsblog
The sun rose this morning on a landscape considerably different from the one described by not one but two articles Streetsblog published yesterday...

Within the transit world, there seem to be two types of transit advocates - there are those who are strong believers in efficient grid-based networks meant to emphasize anywhere-to-anywhere geographic coverage, and then there are those who favor implementing high-capacity transit between urban centers to spur dense growth and land use in these corridors... Read On